The Dresden Files RPG

White Council Allies

Aiding the White Council in the Vampire War are several allies: The Fellowship of St. Giles, the Venatori Umbrorum, and several individual temples and monasteries in the Far East. The White Council has also benefited in the Vampire War from the occasional assistance of the Knights of the Cross and the Summer Court of Faerie.

The Fellowship of St. Giles

The Fellowship of St. Giles is a refuge for the desperate, for people who have some kind of darkness within them that has eaten parts of them away. All of them are trying to hold onto their humanity by turning that darkness back upon those who would harm mankind.

The Fellowship has developed magical tattoos to control their members’ hungers. These allow the half-vampiric members of the Fellowship to enjoy the advantages of their supernatural abilities while maintaining a modicum of control and choice. However, they aren’t perfect; extended use of supernatural abilities returns the member to the mercy of those monstrous hungers. For this reason, the Fellowship usually works in pairs or teams rather than singly.

The Fellowship is working with the White Council in the Vampire War, channeling information and helping out in combat situations. They have a particular hatred for the Red Court and will take any opportunity to strike back at them.

The Venatori Umbrorum

The Venatori Umbrorum are literally “hunters of the shadows.” Often characterized as “Masons with machine guns” or “Masons with flamethrowers,” they are an ancient secret brotherhood of people with extensive knowledge of academic (especially history and folklore), commercial, intelligence and counter-intelligence, financial, legal, and military issues. They possess an understanding of basic occult countermeasures. They are a larger organization than the Fellowship of St. Giles (possibly even larger than the White Council realizes). Unfortunately, they seem to lack powerful magical practitioners.

As allies of the White Council, they usually provide intel and analysis to the wizards. Since the start of the Vampire War, they have also participated in combat operations against the Red Court.

Himalayan Temples & Indian Monasteries

Not much is known about these allies of the White Council from the Far East. It seems that, while they have less overall mystic power than the (mostly Eurocentric) White Council, they do have a modicum of mojo, along with greater knowledge and familiarity with the supernatural threats in Asia (like rakasha and the Jade Court of Vampires).

The year ends, and we move on from the Council and its… friends.

The new year brings the Knights of the Cross.  See you in two weeks.